Vancouver Island

Introducing our BC Instagrammer of the week, @mason_mashon! A professional photographer based in Whistler, he loves mountain biking, snowboarding, sledding and surfing just as much as he loves to shoot them. This week he brings us surfing on the west coast of Vancouver Island! Surfing on BC’s coast in the Winter is not for the faint […]

UPDATED: The ski season isn’t over yet! Recent snowfall in some areas of BC means ski resorts are making the most of winter. We’ve included the projected closing dates below so you can plan your last days on the slopes. For weekly updates on snow conditions and perspectives from BC resorts, check out our weekly […]

Introducing our BC Instagrammer of the week, @BobKronbauer! You may know him as founder and editor-in-chief of the popular blog Vancouver is Awesome, but he’s also an avid BC traveller, fisherman, conservationist and photographer. His theme for the week? “BC is Awesome!” If there’s one place in the world I’d like to be right now, it’s […]

Foraging, food and fungi. That was what it was all about when we spent a recent Saturday with Bill Jones of Deerholme Farm in the beautiful Cowichan Valley. Eleven of us gathered at Jones’ charming 1904 Deerholme Cottage to learn all about the magic and culture of foraging for wild mushrooms on Vancouver Island. Jones […]

By Leah Adams-Chute, Destination BC A long fall hike is a great way to end the summer and the perfect adventure before settling in for winter. There are many perks to hiking the Juan de Fuca Trail in fall and here are a few of them — with some inspiring images — to encourage you to get […]

It’s the type of scene you’d expect to find in Iceland, or maybe New Zealand – dramatic, glacial-formed peaks and fjords, filled with dark, smooth seas, disturbed only by the tail of a humpback whale or a pod of white-sided dolphins. Wet, quiet, dusky old growth forests, draped tops-to-roots in green moss, criss-crossed with trails […]